Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 624 Is it really suicide?

  "..." Hattori Heiji planned to do something in the haunted house, and originally wanted to refuse to let them lead the way.

   But on second thought, the two tall and thin male college students were no match for the police officers he borrowed.

  If the two sides meet, the two college students in front of them will be carried to the side by the police like chickens in an instant. Wouldn't interfere too much with their "rescue plan".

   In addition, Hattori Heiji felt that it was suspicious that he insisted on bringing Jiang Xia and Amuro Toru to the haunted house. If there is really a problem with Amuro, now, it seems that he should not increase his suspicion.

   So after rejecting the failure, he nodded reluctantly.

   Fengya Takaichi and Tsuji Eizun looked at each other with a tacit smirk.

  ——They took the initiative to lead the way, of course, not only to let the guests visit all the facilities, but also to scare the guests who were finally delivered to their door, making today's stall worthwhile.

   Considering people who often see dead bodies, they should be more courageous than ordinary people.

  Tsuji Rongzun and Fenggu Guishi decided to step up their efforts.

  ——First walk with the guests as a guide; then suddenly change into a "ghost" in a haunted house.

   This kind of plots of "the companions we thought were actually ghosts" and "the evil ghosts are among us" will definitely bring the scaring effect they want.

  …

  Yijian Anna and Kato Mutsu enter the haunted house.

   After a while, the humble little light on the signboard at the door finally came on.

   - This means that the two female college students in the haunted house are ready at this time, and the guests can start the experience at any time.

  Let's go, Fenggu Takaichi opened the curtain and walked in with Tsuji Eizun.

   Jiang Xia and others quickly followed.

  As everyone entered the haunted house, the black cloth behind them that was lifted and put down again and again was finally completely covered.

  The surrounding vision was completely darkened. Like many haunted houses on the market, the light here is weak, the roads are complicated, and the eerie soundtrack is loud.

  As soon as Jiang Xia entered the house, he habitually borrowed his night vision ability from the ghosts.

   After that, he looked around curiously with a slight hint of curiosity, and suddenly felt that it was boring.

  ——Without the cover of darkness, all the organs in the corner were exposed to his sight. Although those dummies that were about to move were hideous and horrific with broken limbs, but once they added the wires behind them, and the various sliding mechanisms under them and at the joints...the level of terror suddenly diminished.

  "..." There is a reason why haunted houses like to make the lights so dark...

  Other ghosts have seen the market more or less, and have a general understanding of the situation in the haunted house.

   Only Xiaobai looked around, sighed in disappointment, and muttered in dissatisfaction. It was clearly called a haunted house, but there were no ghosts or monsters in it at all... Fraud, this is fraud.

   Although Jiang Xia knew the style of these haunted houses for a long time, she couldn't help but nodded her head in sympathy.

  …

   Although it has received bad reviews from ghosts and psychics.

   However, for ordinary people whose eyesight is greatly affected by light, this haunted house can be called a professional. All kinds of dummies are carefully made, and the dramatic wires and mechanical bearings are also hidden in the shadows that are not easy to find.

   Yuan Shan and Ye are occasionally frightened by the "zombies" that jump out from various strange angles; the roars of zombies from far and near are also heart-wrenching.

   But in general, everything is fine: strangeness will bring more fear, but Yuanshan and Ye are not unfamiliar here.

  ——When Jiang Xia made a cameo just now, she and Hattori Heiji sneaked in. This haunted house is built on a corner of the campus and borrowed a stage. The three "walls" are actually solid fabrics. As long as you have a thick skin, you can enter without disturbing the owner of the haunted house.

So now, when she was startled, she just called out a conditioned reflex, but she still firmly remembered what she should do later, looking at Jiang Xia with anticipation and eagerness to try, a pair of beautiful Apricot's eyes seemed to be burning the illusory flame of struggle.

  …

  Mineya Takashi and Tsuji Eizun lead the way.

   Hearing the exclamations coming from time to time, the two looked back: "How is it, it's not bad."

   Jiang Xia nodded politely.

  The two male college students saw that the guests did not give much comments, they turned around and chatted with themselves: "Speaking of which, it would be nice if Hashiguchi could see these finished products."

   "Yeah. The haunted house, the institutions and facilities used, the graduation project... all are his suggestions, that guy is really a genius."

   Hattori Heiji was thinking of something else.

   But at this time, hearing this sentence, he was still instinctively puzzled, and interjected: "Why can't he see it? That Hashiguchi dropped out of school?"

   Jiang Xia, Yuan Shan and Ye also looked over in confusion.

   "..." Amuro has been in contact with cases a lot these days. Thinking of the regrettable words of the two male college students just now, "Just let Hashiguchi take a look," he suddenly had a vague guess in his heart.

   Sure enough, the next second, Fenggu Takaichi's tone became low.

   He sighed: "It's not a suspension of school - Hashiguchi committed suicide. He committed suicide by taking poison, just a month ago."

   Amuro Toru: "..."

   He was silent for a while, and couldn't help but ask, "Is it really suicide, not homicide?"

  “…?”

   The two male college students thought he asked this question a bit strange. No one's first reaction after hearing about suicide is "it was actually a murder"... Even those detectives usually only say such unreadable words after they find obvious doubts.

   However, as one of the first discoverers of the corpse, the two students subconsciously began to defend themselves.

Fenggu Guishi said: "It must be, there is nothing to doubt it. Hashiguchi was terminally ill, and his condition deteriorated rapidly, with only half a year left to live. After his death, the police found a suicide note at his house - it was that A handwritten, dated suicide note, not the machine-printed stuff in mystery novels."

   Tsuji Rongzun also nodded: "It happened to be the four of us who found the body and suicide note - me, him, and the two girls you met at the door just now.

"That's right after that, An Cai suddenly became very enthusiastic about filmmaking, saying that she wanted to dedicate the supreme art to the deceased Hashiguchi - this time, she insisted that you see her corpse acting like it, too. Same reason, right, peaks and valleys... eh? peaks and valleys?"

   Tsuji Eizun looked left and right in confusion and stopped.

   Finding that there was one person missing suddenly, his tone became puzzled: "Where's the person?"

   Jiang Xia was startled, and followed him to look left and right, pretending that he hadn't seen someone slipping away quickly along the small fork in the road just now.

   (end of this chapter)